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My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Susan Sontag

A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Book Education Goodness Heart World
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
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Death Life Photograph
To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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Frame Photography
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Destroy History
Photography is an elegiac art, a twilight art. Most subjects photographed are, just by virtue of being photographed, touched with pathos.
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Art Photography Touch
It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Change Easy Endurance
To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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Sage Thinking Time
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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Funny Inspirational Travel
One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Change Feeling One Liner Oneself
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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Pain People
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
It is not the position, but the disposition.
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Attitude Inspirational Motivational One Liner
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Action Compassion Need
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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Job Life Myself Poet Writing
whatever doesn’t kill you leaves scars.
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Kill Scars Yourself
I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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People Transformation
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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Attention Thinking World
10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Change Direction People
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence.
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Book Dream Memories
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Moments Mortal Person Photograph Time
All my life I’ve been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
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Intelligent Life Talk
Photographers are always imposing.
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Imposing One Liner Photographer

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